Backhausdance: Dwight Rhoden's "Scene Unseen" (2019) (Trailer)

Choreography by Dwight Rhoden Premiere: Irvine Barclay Theatre, Irvine, CA Music: Lux Prima by Karen O & Dancer Mouse; Symphony No. 3 for Strings, IV Movement by Philip Glass; Cohere, Pt 1 by Alex Vargas; Water Dances: 1. Dipping by Michael Nyman; Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemande by Johann Sebastian Bach; Queen of the Night by Michael Nyman Lighting Design: Michael Korsch Costume Design: Christine Darch Running Time: 26 minutes Performed by Ellen Akashi, Kira Bartoli, Tawny Chapman, Samuel DeAngelo, Aika Doone, Amie Lee Kilgore, Katie Natwick, Adrien Padilla, Kaitlin Regan, Chihiro Sano, Megan Seagren, Santiago Villarreal, Amanda Kay White Existing in a dimension between fantasy and reality, internationally celebrated superstar Dwight Rhoden’s first repertory work for Backhausdance articulates every language available to the body and choreographer. Mr. Rhoden’s premiere for a cast of 13 bears his signature, unconstrained, all-out physicality. An abstract symphony of bodies and energy centered around our connectivity in love and relationships, the founding artistic director and resident choreographer of Complexions Contemporary Ballet has crafted a work that is seductively uninhibited and exudes magnetic, layered interconnections.